Margo Jefferson
Related G. WILLOW WILSON AUDRE LORDE I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been... DARYL HALL HELEN OYEYEMI In the beginning it was all black and white. MAUREEN O'HARA For a long time, Nella Larsen was the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance. In the late 1920s, sh... DARRYL PINCKNEY That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no... ZAKK WYLDE The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w... SAM MENDES THEODOR ADORNO This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they a... WERLEY NORTREUS I was part of a writers' collective with 21 writers and filmmakers called the San Francisco Writ... NOAH HAWLEY ROBERT FRANK KAMI GARCIA College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white. ILYASAH SHABAZZ GLORIA STEINEM MAYA ANGELOU I never realised before how much of a jurist I am. I try to bring everything back to the basics, to ... DANNY MEKIć VIKRMN TINA TURNER To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color ... X. J. KENNEDY HENRY LOUIS GATES CARINE ROITFELD I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do. BENICIO DEL TORO But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN CHARLES FRAZIER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES THABO MBEKI Life is not just black and white, there are a million shades in between. HANIF HASSAN BARBHUIYA TRACIE THOMS Where there is woman there is magic. NTOZAKE SHANGE one thing I don’t needNTOZAKE SHANGE If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is. NTOZAKE SHANGE I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act ... NTOZAKE SHANGE White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton ... NTOZAKE SHANGE Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power. NTOZAKE SHANGE Multiculturalism is a white people joke. NTOZAKE SHANGE Where there is a woman there is magic. NTOZAKE SHANGE but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysicalNTOZAKE SHANGE I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed abo... NTOZAKE SHANGE i'm only human, & inadequacy is what makes us human, & if we was perfect we wdnt have nothin... NTOZAKE SHANGE Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who... NTOZAKE SHANGE somebody/ anybodyNTOZAKE SHANGE i found god in myselfNTOZAKE SHANGE Color can do anything that black-and-white can. VINCENTE MINNELLI Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it. PILOU ASBAEK JOHN WAYNE DORIS LESSING Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can. JACK ANTONOFF Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white. DANNY BOYLE BRANDON WEBB ANTHONY T. HINCKS SAMUEL GOLDWYN Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world. CALEB REESE The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gr... LORD THORNEYCROFT CECELIA AHERN In a way, 'Sin City's designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japa... FRANK MILLER That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business. EARLY WYNN It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic t... JESMYN WARD DEJAN STOJANOVIC I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off ... AL GREEN As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality. ANDRZEJ WAJDA BRAD PAISLEY EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON FAY GODWIN GRAHAM GREENE LISA LING WILL ARNETT HENRY ROLLINS GISELE BUNDCHEN JIM LEHRER I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote... ELLIOT PERLMAN Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate... EDEN AHBEZ BRENE BROWN And I also figured out that way I can do a film in black and white because I've never been able to d... ALEX COX If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as... COLIN WILSON We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fas... TONY GOLDWYN No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey SHINDE SWEETY MARKUS ZUSAK WHETHER IT'S A CHILD'S TOY OR A NATION'S OIL, IT'S ALL THE SAME, the Red Rider said. YOU FIGHT FO... JACKIE KESSLER PETER JACKSON White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not b... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON BETTE DAVIS DONATELLA VERSACE WOLE SOYINKA It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people whi... ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism,... MELVYN BRAGG PAUL MARCIANO ADRIENNE RICH JOE WURZELBACHER GARY ROSS Black and white thinking forces a choice between pretending we know everything and believing we know... TERENCE T. GORSKI SHIRLEY CHISHOLM NANCY GRACE GUNTER GRASS The battle is always between those who desire to be happy in the world and those who desire to be fr... EDWARD WEISS They were kids [black and white] who had never been in touching distance of each other and knew noth... HERMAN BOONE MAISIE WILLIAMS PAULINE HANSON LAURA SCHLESSINGER We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections. KRITI SANON
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My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Ti... MARGO JEFFERSON Even criticism is more interesting when the writer's authority does not only come through this o... MARGO JEFFERSON Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours... MARGO JEFFERSON Every mind is a clutter of memories, images, inventions and age-old repetitions. It can be a ghetto,... MARGO JEFFERSON Black Power was really a major challenge to the social privileges and structures of the kind of priv... MARGO JEFFERSON I do not regret the years I spent reading the traditional canon of white male writers in school. I d... MARGO JEFFERSON Fashion for my mother was about asserting and demonstrating you had aesthetics, tastes, sensibility,... MARGO JEFFERSON Michael Jackson loved epic symbols. In his shows and his videos, he always destroyed or salvaged wor... MARGO JEFFERSON Michael Jackson was one of popular culture's greatest artists. Nobody danced better. Few sang mo... MARGO JEFFERSON In many ways, everything about my upbringing decreed that I wouldn't write a memoir because in t... MARGO JEFFERSON Since pre-Emancipation, black 'females' have had to fight for the whites-only privilege of b... MARGO JEFFERSON The piece I most love wearing is Mother's gold brocade cocktail dress with matching jacket... It... MARGO JEFFERSON We Americans are childish about our celebrities and icons. We worship, then we denounce; we identify... MARGO JEFFERSON In general, fashion is decorative, it's protective, it acknowledges that the world does involve ... MARGO JEFFERSON I would certainly say that my life, and perhaps human life in general, follows an intricate pattern ... MARGO JEFFERSON Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater g... 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MARGO JEFFERSON Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was kno... MARGO JEFFERSON No society ever rights a wrong without finding a new one to put in its place MARGO JEFFERSON As the years pass, I find that writers who were once central to me aren't anymore. I revered Yea... MARGO JEFFERSON Privilege is provisional. It can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly, and summarily withdrawn. MARGO JEFFERSON You were not supposed to show off in Negroland because you are supposed to be perfectly decorous and... MARGO JEFFERSON I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som... MARGO JEFFERSON Thank God for jazz. It gave black women what film and theater gave white women: a well-lighted space... MARGO JEFFERSON If you were a successful upper-middle-class Negro girl in the 1950s and '60s, you were, in pract... MARGO JEFFERSON A Negro girl could never be purely innocent. The vengeful Race Fairy always lurked nearby; your pare... MARGO JEFFERSON I need to acknowledge the toll certain parts of my life are taking on me. I have to do that, even if... MARGO JEFFERSON I think it's too easy to recount your unhappy memories when you write about yourself. You bask i... MARGO JEFFERSON At the very least, noir offers an alternate reality - moments of real passion, a bleak code of honor... MARGO JEFFERSON I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever... MARGO JEFFERSON Negroland is my name for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain... MARGO JEFFERSON Many say that no real avant-garde - which I'll define as a combative group of free-thinking arti... MARGO JEFFERSON Several elementary school teachers had described me as a 'future authoress or poetess.' Moth... 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MARGO RODRIGUEZ Life is happening so make it happen before it's happened MARGO VADER It's not enough any more for the government to publish dietary guidelines and point their finger at ... MARGO WOOTAN I work in this area, and I don't even know what some of those things are referring to. MARGO WOOTAN Schools can make money without selling junk food. MARGO WOOTAN The definition is out of date and out of sync with current nutritional concerns for children, MARGO WOOTAN It's as important for children to know how to prevent heart disease, cancer and diabetes as it is fo... MARGO WOOTAN This means that the policy effectively does not address high schools at all because it won't affect ... MARGO WOOTAN It's impressive that Kraft was able to do two 100 percent whole-grain cookies. MARGO WOOTAN [Communities that do step up to reverse poor nutrition trends often face considerable opposition fro... MARGO WOOTAN This is a good step toward reducing artery-clogging fat in french fries, but it doesn't make french ... MARGO WOOTAN The money from soda contracts comes out of children's and parents' pockets. Coke, Pepsi, and other j... MARGO WOOTAN New Dawn Coming MARGO TIMMINS How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that gr... MARGO LANAGAN My aids, or my commands to the horse, should not be visible to the naked eye. It's kind of like when... MARGO DEWKETT It was great that we came from behind and had some adversity. It was a big win for us. MARGO JONKER It had 822 calories and 32 grams of fat. So the calorie content was much higher than the bacon doubl... MARGO RODRIGUEZ Disco-era nutrition standards don't make sense in 2006. MARGO WOOTAN Growing old happens but growing up needn't happen MARGO VADER Sweet Jane. MARGO TIMMINS There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence i... 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MARGO FENN This is a town project. It's the towns' call. MARGO FENN I know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem, an inconvenience is losing a job. A pr... MARGO DEWKETT And their first instinctual reaction is to flee. Everything we do in education is to teach the horse... MARGO DEWKETT All of that snorting, it's just like an algebra problem. We're going to give him a job. By giving hi... MARGO DEWKETT We've wanted to come back here since the end of last year. MARGO MUHLBAUER I thought it was pretty cool. Not many people get a chance to do that. MARGO MUHLBAUER I can't think of a better place to end it but Wells Fargo Arena. MARGO MUHLBAUER We see each other at dance on Sundays and always talk about the big game. It's not just competition;... MARGO MUHLBAUER I've been very fortunate to play with a lot of great players. They always seem to find me on the cou... MARGO MUHLBAUER Our second half pressure defense helped us win the game. 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He last performed at the end of 2004. MARGO LEWIS It's very uplifting to see the response. People are learning about our history and how to care for t... MARGO STRINGFIELD We don't know what, if anything, was taken. But it does look like there was thought to this. It was ... MARGO STRINGFIELD The beach is Mother Nature's trail. You can walk for 3 miles to the St. Lucie Inlet State Park. MARGO STAHL It was supposed to be a very friendly, very self-esteem building environment for women. Compared to ... MARGO SCHLANGER If the alternative to a temporary race segregation is a riot, where people get hurt, then yeah, you ... MARGO SCHLANGER It's not clear to me that the big loss to women is the loss of a woman justice, it's the loss of a m... MARGO SCHLANGER It's got the exact same grams of fat. If we take the calories from fat, which are 30, and divide it ... MARGO RODRIGUEZ We're confused because information on a food label is in a different language. MARGO RODRIGUEZ He's the Bono of Canada. This sort of work that these guys do, they're not just talking about it all... MARGO TIMMINS Everybody wants to change the world. But I guess how we want to change it is a little bit more quiet... MARGO TIMMINS It's one of those songs that when we play for an audience it's interesting to see people's reactions... MARGO TIMMINS I'd like to see a quiet album and go back to being sparse again, because this album is such a big al... MARGO TIMMINS It's not that we don't want to be all over the radio, ... I'd love to have a hit single. However, I ... MARGO TIMMINS Every so often in the last 20 years, Hollywood has called, ... And every MARGO TIMMINS By 2010, the net reduction in global emissions from Europe meeting the Kyoto Protocol will be only 0... MARGO THORNING A cooperative global approach to reducing emission growth is more likely to produce real emissions r... MARGO THORNING The findings of our research suggest that an alternative approach (to climate change) is urgently ne... MARGO THORNING We need to focus on things like the [Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate], whi... MARGO THORNING It's just really gross to see kids who don't do a thing, while the grandpas and uncles are working h... MARGO WILLIAMS I let her take control. The older kids listen to her. Sometimes, I feel like it's not my place. My p... MARGO WILLIAMS It'll take months... and potentially years before the ultimate outcome is known. The management rema... MARGO VIGNOLA MARGO ST. JAMES All the things that you said when you thought I wasn't there,MARGO T. ROSE Did you say all that you meant toMARGO T. ROSE My mind is like a little house,MARGO T. ROSE It doesn't mean anything;MARGO T. ROSE I'm still looking for someoneMARGO T. ROSE I know you're feeling worried,MARGO T. ROSE We met at a cross-roads in life,MARGO T. ROSE It's not that I'm angry;MARGO T. ROSE I know I've got no reason to be crying;MARGO T. ROSE Your smile breaks my heart,MARGO T. ROSE That thing you thought you'd doMARGO T. ROSE There's no room for me in your world;MARGO T. ROSE Don't be sorry;MARGO T. 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We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black... 
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to ... 
Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe... 
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. 
The eye should learn to listen before it looks. 
Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you. 
I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey He... 
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.'... 
Black and white seems a journey into space which is destined back to earth. 
I know the difference between black magic and white magic. 
Diversity doesn't mean black and white only. 
Most makeup campaigns are not in black and white. 
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirti... 
South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white. 
African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced ... 
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?' 
Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. 
Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray. 
If you look beyond the lies, then you will see the truth.
Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white. 
I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rul... 
There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work. 
Life isn't always black and white. You're not always sure you're right. At least I'm... 
Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now. 
Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know. 
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. 
There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white. 
Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. 
I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip. 
It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white. 
There are very few really stark black and white stories. 
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and defin... 
At first, all is black and white.
There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level ... 
I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, an... 
If I could dress anyone, I'd like to dress the Queen - she can handle anything. I'd put her ... 
I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come a... 
When images are in black and white, they seem timeless. When you see Carrie Otis in an ad from 1989 ... 
I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,
I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's righ... 
I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have ... 
I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency ... 
I think the truth is black-and-white. 
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and whit... 
It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, ... 
This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this. 
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrato... 
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ig... 
I would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and a man cle... 
I would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and a man cle... 
Punishing the prostitute promotes the rape of all women. When prostitution is a crime, the message c... 
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. 
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. 
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. 